"He cannot allow the low ratings at CNN to continue," a source told the Post. "So he can't hire a nobody. Curry fits that CNN-smarty-pants-foreign-affairs type."

In the recent Hollywood Reporter article "How Jeff Zucker Can Make CNN Less Boring," Andrew Tyndall writes, "Zucker's task is not about hiring and firing some big-name anchors, or about rejiggering the flow of programming -- though that, surely, needs to be done. He needs to find fresh ways -- a new third way -- for CNN to make video news."

Tyndall goes on to predict, "Zucker can be expected to apply the classic formulas of television to CNN's lineup: personality and flow. CNN's founding formula -- that the news is the star -- has long become redundant. The network, created in an era of news scarcity, now is trying to find its way at a time when news is a commodity."